Business Area:
Professional ServicesSeniority Level:
Mid-Senior levelJob Description:
At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Cloudera is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join its APAC Professional Services team. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to develop massively scalable solutions to solve complex data problems using Hadoop, NiFi, Spark and related Big Data technology. This role is a client facing opportunity that combines consulting skills with deep technical design and development in the Big Data space. This role will present the successful candidate the opportunity to travel across Asia Pacific and across multiple industries and large customer organisations.
As the Senior Solutions Architect you will:
Work directly with customer business and technical teams to understand requirements and develop high quality solutions
Design highly scalable and reliable data pipelines to consume, integrate, and analyze large amounts of data from various sources.
Able to understand big data use-cases and recommend standard design, implementation patterns used in Hadoop-based deployments
Able to document and present complex architectures for the customer’s technical teams
Work closely with Cloudera teams at all levels to ensure project and customer success
Design effective data models for optimal storage and retrieval, deploy inclusive data quality checks to ensure high quality of data
Design, build, tune and maintain data pipelines using Hadoop, NiFi or related data integration technologies
Install, deploy, augment, upgrade, manage and operate large Hadoop clusters
Write and produce technical documentation, customer status reports and knowledge-base articles
Keep up with current Hadoop, NiFi, Big Data ecosystem / technologies.
We’re excited about you if you have:
Overall 12+ years IT experience, with at least 4+ years of production experience working with Hadoop and/or NiFi, data engineering.
Hands-on experience with all aspects of developing, testing and implementing low-latency big data pipelines.
Demonstrated production experience in data engineering, data management, cluster management and/or analytics domains.
Experience designing data queries against data in the HDFS environment using tools such as Apache Hive
Experience implementing MapReduce, Spark jobs
Experience setting up multi-node Hadoop clusters
Experience in systems administration or DevOps experience with one or more open-source operating systems [Big Data Developers interested in Administration and consulting can also apply]
Experience with Data Warehouse design, ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Load), architecting efficient software designs for DW platform.
Experience implementing operational best practices such as alerting, monitoring, and metadata management.
Strong understanding with various enterprise security practices and solutions such as LDAP and/or Kerberos
Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
Familiarity with scripting tools such as bash shell scripts, Python and/or Perl
Experience with Apache NiFi is desired
Significant previous work writing to network-based APIs, preferably REST/JSON or XML/SOAP
Understanding of the Java ecosystem and enterprise offerings, including debugging and profiling tools (e.g. jstack, jmap, jconsole), logging and monitoring tools (log4j, JMX)
Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements
Excellent verbal and written communications
You may also have:
Site Reliability Engineering concepts and practices
Knowledge of the data management eco-system including: Concepts of data warehousing, ETL, data integration, etc.
Experience using a compiled programming language, preferably one that runs on the JVM (Java, Scala, etc)
Experience coding with streaming/micro-batch compute frameworks, preferably Kafka, Spark
What you can expect from us:
Generous PTO Policy
Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
Flexible WFH Policy
Mental & Physical Wellness programs
Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
Access to Continued Career Development
Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Paid Volunteer Time
Employee Resource Groups
EEO/VEVRAA
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Skills Required
- 12+ years IT experience
- 4+ years of production experience with Hadoop and/or NiFi
- Hands-on experience developing low-latency big data pipelines
- Experience implementing MapReduce, Spark jobs
- Experience with Data Warehouse design and ETL
- Strong understanding of enterprise security practices
Cloudera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cloudera and has not been reviewed or approved by Cloudera.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unplugged Days provide recurring company‑wide extra days off in addition to generous PTO and holidays, creating predictable recharge time. Time away is a prominent part of the package and is consistently emphasized alongside regular leave options.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with life and disability insurance, an EAP, and wellness programming. Added lifestyle support includes gym reimbursement in the U.S. and health checkups in some locations.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — The company emphasizes equitable compensation and maintains a Fair Pay Workplace certification. Pay is described as competitive for many technical and go‑to‑market roles, aligning with this stance.
Cloudera Insights
What We Do
At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Why Work With Us
Impact at Scale: The infrastructure we build solves massive problems for top global banks, telecommunications giants, and healthcare providers. Cutting-Edge Tech: Work directly at the intersection of Open Source, Machine Learning, and Generative AI. Unmatched Flexibility: Enjoy a remote-friendly, hybrid culture that respects your time—including









